The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

Irene Wright McClatchy News Nearly two centuries ago on a little archipelago off the Pacific coast of Ecuador, a 26-year-old Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle. The now famous scientist had ...

Lady Diana Spencer, then 20, married Prince Charles, 32, on July 29, 1981, at St Paul's Cathedral in a grand ceremony attended by 3,500 guests. Hailed as the 'wedding of the century', a record ...

King Charles III has hinted at forgiving and forgetting Prince Harry's alleged past mistakes as he appears recognising the Duke's admirable works with his recent gestures. The 76-year-old sparked ...

The Galapagos will forever be associated with Charles Darwin’s 1835 visit ... a former farm turned wild tortoise ranch. My last night aboard seems to stretch forever. I sink into my hot tub ...

FEW are the writers, scientific or otherwise, who ca afford, in every successive edition of their works, to place side by side the passages which they have seen reason to alter, from a change of ...

A rare close-up photo of Jonathan, the 192-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise, has gone viral. The striking image highlights his age ... Jonathan has been around since the first photos were taken, the ...

Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, China. Darwin proposed that ‘variation’ included changes in the developmental process that could be induced by environmental shifts.

In 1832, Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa) was born. Although his exact birthdate is unknown, he has been given the official birthday of December 4, 1832.

Charles Darwin University (CDU) has cut staff, halted its growth plans and slashed department budgets. While the federal government failed to introduce legislated caps on new students last year ...